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Superman

Lol. Thats totally wrong. You arent factoring that the studio has to pay theater owners a 50/50 split. The film pretty much broke even theatrically. It became profitable once it hit streaming. It made between 100 to 125 off streaming, rentals, vod etc.

That "50%" thing is an Urban Legend, always has been. The marketing is never as high as people assume either.
 
No it's not.

It is, it always has been. No one could ever prove it. Same with how high Marketing costs are presumed to be.

Warner Bros-Discovery says it cost $125 million to market.
Other sources go as high as $200 million.
I split the difference.

People forget that a lot of the promotional and marketing costs are already paid off (at least partly) by deals the Studios make before the film comes out with whoever uses their business to help promote the film (Toy Companies for example).
 
If you think that was directed exclusively at Anwar, you’re mistaken (again).

Of course it wasn't. Still worked for my post. Thank you.
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It is, it always has been. No one could ever prove it. Same with how high Marketing costs are presumed to be.



People forget that a lot of the promotional and marketing costs are already paid off (at least partly) by deals the Studios make before the film comes out with whoever uses their business to help promote the film (Toy Companies for example).

It is true. But hey at least it made a profit after the theater run.
 
Fact: Superman '25 proved popular and financially successful enough to get a sequel just two years later, and without putting him up against Batman, either.

Also fact: during the bidding war for WB, both Netflix and Paramount/Skydance explicitly and repeatedly pointed out that James Gunn and Peter Safran would stay on as heads of DC Studios, something they would not do if Superman '25 was not popular with audiences.
 
I'm a vocal believer that Reeve is the best Superman ever, but the idea that the Corenswet movie is a failure is just pathetically incorrect and the box office and the studio responses to its performance in no way scream, "FLOP."

Supergirl and Man of Tomorrow will tell us more about the health of the Gunn universe than last year's Superman.
 
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